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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Blackout Beach…better late than never

I really like almost all Carey Mercer’s projects – Frog Eyes, Swan Lake and the little bit of Blue Pine that I’m familiar with – so it’s not surprising, maybe, that I liked his solo endeavor, Blackout Beach, whose Skin of Evil came out this January on Soft Abuse.

I covered it at Blurt a week or so ago, concluding, “Feral yet literate, hallucinatory yet possessed of an intrinsic kind of logic, Skin of Evil takes listeners through nightmarish, semi-real landscapes. Nothing is exactly what it seems. Everything evokes hidden resonances and unspoken connections. It's exhausting, mystical and ultimately fascinating, speaking to a much greater reality than what's on the surface.”